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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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The most awful book I ha e ever read.
Why I kept going I don't know. Not a likeable person in it. Fortunately totally unbelievable and you would not have gone a million miles near these people let alone stay in their company. No understanding of domestic violence at all. With a broken spine apparently she still enjoyed it! Dreadful. Please don't waste your time. Very two dimensional.
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Ok
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Use of language and writing style is good though.
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Boring
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How Weird is this ?
I enjoyed listening to this audio book and love the reader. It was an interesting story- but can I say I enjoyed it? I am not sure. I felt the couple to be very naive and so the ending should not have been such a surprise. It was. I have no idea why it should end like this :(
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. After receiving notice that all foreigners must report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: Does she subject Lucie to the horrid conditions of the camp, or does she put her into hiding with her beloved and trusted governess, safe until Vera can retrieve her? Believing the war will end soon, Vera chooses to leave Lucie in safety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story, great performance
- By M Davis on 03-01-21
By: Alexis Landau
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A Child in Time
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4 out of 5 stars 102
Two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not McEwan's Best Effort
- By Charles on 06-07-09
By: Ian McEwan
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The Parisian
- By: Isabella Hammad
- Narrated by: Fiona Button
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4 out of 5 stars 126
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overly ambitious
- By Turtle on 06-16-19
By: Isabella Hammad
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone
- A Novel
- By: Gabriella Burnham
- Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved to São Paulo, with her husband, Dennis, who has accepted a yearlong professorship. As Dennis submerges himself in his work, Linda finds herself unmoored and adrift, feeling increasingly disassociated from her own body. Linda’s unwavering and skilled maid, Marta, has more claim to Linda’s home than Linda can fathom. Marta, who is struggling to make sense of complicated history and its racial tensions, is exasperated by Linda’s instability.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warm, sweet tropics
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-20
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The Little French Bistro
- A Novel
- By: Nina George
- Narrated by: Emma Bering
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4 out of 5 stars 244
Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After 41 years she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her life behind and sets out for the Brittany coast. There she meets a cast of colorful and unforgettable locals who surprise her with their warm welcome and the natural ease they all seem to have, taking pleasure in life's small moments.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Michael on 08-16-17
By: Nina George
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Fatal Inheritance
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Rhys
- Narrated by: Charlotte Hamblin, Roy McMillan
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 199
London, 1948: Eve Forrester is stuck in a loveless marriage, isolated in her gloomy house, when out of the blue, she receives a letter. A wealthy stranger has left her a mysterious inheritance, but in order to find out more, she must travel to the glittering French Riviera. There, Eve discovers she has been bequeathed an enchanting villa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, and suddenly, life could not be more glamorous. But while she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, challengers to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge - challengers who would love to see Eve gone forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An enticing story
- By fiction lover on 12-23-19
By: Rachel Rhys
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The Man with No Borders
- A Novel
- By: Richard C. Morais
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
It is a time of reckoning for José-Maria Alvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. Nearing the end of a long and tumultuous life, he’s overcome by hallucinatory memories of the past. Among his most cherished memories are those of his boyhood in 1950s Franco-era Spain and the bucolic afternoons he spent salmon fishing on the Sella River with his father, uncle, and much-loved younger brother. But these fond reveries are soon eclipsed by something greater.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Men having sex with men is a disorder, it is not something to be proud of
- By Robert Anthony on 08-31-22
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What's Left of Me Is Yours
- A Novel
- By: Stephanie Scott
- Narrated by: Janet Song, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the wakaresaseya (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- By William Michael Dunn on 07-06-20
By: Stephanie Scott
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The Girls in Navy Blue
- A Novel
- By: Alix Rickloff
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore, Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
1918—America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher’s daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police. Even as the US military pours into France and the war heats up, the three yeomanettes find friendship and sisterhood within the Navy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story
- By Dixie Susalla on 11-15-22
By: Alix Rickloff
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Burnt Sugar
- By: Avni Doshi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 68
In vivid and visceral prose, Tibor Jones South Asia Prize-winning writer Avni Doshi tells a story, at once shocking and empathetic, about love and betrayal between a mother and a daughter. A journey into shifting memories, altering identities, and the subjective nature of truth, Burnt Sugar is a stunning and unforgettable debut.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narration - Story is lacking.
- By Anon54fdgnb7 on 02-05-21
By: Avni Doshi
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The Golden Hour
- A Novel
- By: Beatriz Williams
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 669
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story4 out of 5 stars 587
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the duke and duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stick with it!
- By Colleen on 07-17-19
By: Beatriz Williams
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The Bohemians
- A Novel
- By: Jasmin Darznik
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 188
In this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age, a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a newcomer - and naïve one at that - Dorothea is grateful for the fast friendship of Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, who introduces Dorothea to Monkey Block, an artists’ colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art, and politics.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating time, people and place
- By Claudio Salusso on 10-01-21
By: Jasmin Darznik
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The Girl from the Channel Islands
- By: Jenny Lecoat
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 391
Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled Vienna two years ago. Now she watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces - the Channel Islands are simply not worth defending. Most islanders and occupying forces settle into an uneasy coexistence, but for Hedy, the situation is perilously different. For Hedy is Jewish — a fact that could mean deportation, or worse.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Might be good
- By Anonymous User on 11-26-21
By: Jenny Lecoat
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White Ivy
- A Novel
- By: Susie Yang
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 759
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Story4 out of 5 stars 680
Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen - and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
- By KayMac on 11-06-20
By: Susie Yang
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Build Your House Around My Body
- A Novel
- By: Violet Kupersmith
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4 out of 5 stars 128
Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. Build Your House Around My Body takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Spanning more than fifty years of Vietnamese history and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing fever dream of a novel that will haunt you long after the last minute.
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